Kansas or North Carolina? Expert Predictions for the Men’s National Title Game Kansas or North Carolina? The SI college hoops staff makes its predictions. Sports Illustrated · Apr 4, 2022
Dick Vitale Has Interesting Suggestion for Coach K’s Next Job As Kansas continues to wait on the NCAA to levy discipline for recruiting violations, the college basketball analyst argues for the appointment of Coach K as CBB commissioner. Sports Illustrated · Apr 4, 2022
Five Matchups That Will Decide UNC-Kansas Title Game With a national championship on the line, battles like Leaky Black vs. Ochai Agbaji will determine which team cuts down the nets Monday. Sports Illustrated · Apr 3, 2022
This Kansas Team Is on a Mission, Whether You’re Paying Attention or Not Dubbed the “other” semifinal on a historic weekend, the Jayhawks delivered a clear message in their win over Villanova. Sports Illustrated · Apr 3, 2022
North Carolina to face Kansas in blue blood title game North Carolina spoiled Mike Krzyzewski’s fairytale ending with a gritty performance The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2022
David McCormack Finds Redemption in the Final Four After Kansas’s center stuck out like a sore thumb in last year’s second-round shellacking by USC, he was unstoppable against Villanova on Saturday. Sports Illustrated · Apr 3, 2022
Kansas will play for NCAA title after beating Villanova in Final Four NEW ORLEANS — Kansas’ men’s basketball team will play for the national title for the first time since 2012 and third time in the Bill Self era on Monday night at Caesars Superdome. Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022
Kansas into title game after easy win vs. Villanova David McCormack scored 25 points and Ochai Agbaji added 21 for the Jayhawks Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 3, 2022
Duke’s (and Chicago’s) Mike Krzyzewski is putting the ‘final’ in Final Four He isn’t loved by everyone outside of the Duke bubble, but his absence from the college game will leave a void. And what an epic way to end a career. Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 2, 2022
'I do believe that the end is soon': Bill Self says of Kansas' NCAA case NEW ORLEANS — Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self expects a resolution involving the NCAA's infractions case against his program sometime in the near future. Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2022
Vahe Gregorian: 'Got to cut down nets': Despite Kansas' rich history, Bill Self knows it's behind others KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self never has been one to sulk. That would be "soft," after all, a concept he holds in contempt. Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022
Vahe Gregorian: 'Win the crowd': How Remy Martin's late-season revival was vital to Kansas' Final Four run KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a certain sense, anyway, University of Kansas guard Remy Martin was born about two years too soon in 1998. Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022
Kansas Jayhawks arrive in New Orleans with ‘some Cajun food’ on the immediate agenda NEW ORLEANS — Kansas’ men’s basketball players and coaches filed off a charter bus — one decorated with both a Jayhawk and NCAA logo — in front of the JW Marriott in the heart of the Big Easy to the applause of hotel employees and fans Wednesday afternoon, including one… Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022
March Madness: What to watch for in a stacked Final Four March Madness has taken a power turn as it turns to the Final Four The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022
Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2022 Leading Tar Heels to Final Four, Hubert Davis restores respect for Carolina basketball North Carolina coach Hubert Davis broke out the “Griddy Dance” on the makeshift stage the Tar Heels bombarded while waiting to be presented their NCAA tournament East Region championship trophy after beating Saint Peter’s 69-49 in the Elite Eight.
Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2022 Sam McDowell: An unexpected halftime talk by Bill Self sparked Kansas Jayhawks' 2nd-half turnaround CHICAGO — They sat in front of their respective booths inside the Kansas locker room, absorbing a six-point deficit after a half that looked too similar to their previous five in this NCAA Tournament, and waited on their coach to arrive. As he did — as Bill Self walked into…
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28, 2022 Kansas Steps on the Gas, Proves Its Mettle as Highest Seed Still Standing A huge second half vs. Miami was a reminder that the Jayhawks are the highest seed still standing.
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 27, 2022 Win (all the damn time) or go home? Kansas, UNC round out all-blue-blood Final Four The Jayhawks got it done Sunday with a dizzyingly good second half at the United Center, outscoring Miami by 32 points in a 76-50 Midwest Region final. At last in this tournament, a 1 seed stood up and declared itself worthy.
Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2022 Bill Self ties Roy Williams by reaching his fourth Final Four coaching Kansas Jayhawks CHICAGO — With its victory Sunday over Miami, the Kansas men’s basketball team reached its 16th Final Four in program history, which ranks fifth on the NCAA appearances list behind North Carolina, Kentucky, UCLA and Duke.
Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2022 Rolling to the Big Easy: Kansas Jayhawks surge in second half, reach 16th Final Four CHICAGO — The Kansas Jayhawks are headed back to the Final Four for the first time since 2018.
Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2022 Kansas coach Bill Self says Miami guard/ex-Jayhawk Charlie Moore playing at higher level CHICAGO — If Kansas’ men’s basketball team is to reach the Final Four, the Jayhawks will have to defeat a team that has a former KU player at the lead guard position.
Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2022 Vahe Gregorian: Next up for Kansas is Bill Self's greatest nemesis: The Elite Eight CHICAGO — Even on a night Kansas couldn't shoot straight (22 of 56) or generate fast-break points (six) and got two rebounds from big man David McCormack and five points from All-American Ochai Agbaji, the Jayhawks had so stifled Providence that the Friars appeared to be reeling to the verge…
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 26, 2022 Kansas beats Providence 66-61 to put Bill Self back in the Elite Eight. So what else is knew? “We’re ecstatic,” Self said. A blue-blood coach with a lifetime contract ought to be.
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 24, 2022 NCAA Midwest: all you need to know about Kansas, Providence, Miami and Iowa State It’s Jayhawks-Friars followed by Hurricanes-Cyclones in Friday’s Sweet 16 matchups at the United Center.
Tribune News Service · Mar 24, 2022 Kansas’ Bill Self not buying into theory that Jayhawks’ Sweet 16 foe has been lucky CHICAGO — Analytics guru Ken Pomeroy provided Providence College’s men’s basketball team a rallying cry recently when his metrics deemed coach Ed Cooley’s Friars the “luckiest” of the NCAA’s 358 Division I programs.